Agrees with Jackson's assertion in the previous article that the development of attachment relationships in an African-American multiple-caregiver context should be analyzed and understood on its own terms to avoid an ethnocentric "Euro-American" perspective. Emphasizes the crucial contribution of overnight care in the development of…

Describes investigation examining effects of caring for elderly parent with dementia on marital satisfaction. Suggests changes in women's marital satisfaction were associated with variations in husbands' emotional support and hindrance of caregiving effort which were affected by perceptions that caregiving interfered with wives' performance of…

Interviewed 105 families of chronically ill psychiatric patients to explore their attitudes toward caring for mentally ill member at home. Found significant relationship between respondent's belief in his/her ability to manage patient behavior and willingness to accept patient in home. Found no significant relationships between family resources,…

Examined attitudes about autopsy by conducting focus group interviews with caregiver support group and senior center members. Themes included benefits, barriers, religious views, and concerns about procedures. Results suggest need for educational interventions to involve family in advance planning; provide counseling regarding purpose, process,…

Uses data from grandmothers with daughters in prison to illustrate need to transcend "either-or" arguments around age as master status; highlight absence of middle generation in growing number of families; and question anti-family premises of generational equity debate. Concludes with recommendations for how researchers and advocates could enhance…

Discusses impact on the spouse when his or her partner is being treated for cancer. Defines the disease, outlines treatment effects, and describes issues affecting psychological and marital adjustment of spouses. Offers implications for counselors who work with spouses of cancer patients. (Author/NB)

Describes an intermittent, focused social work intervention to help overcome personal and intrapsychic barriers to using available help for wives of Alzheimer's patients. Discusses therapeutic goals, common themes, and implications for practice with caregiving wives with specific attention to supporting the wife in her wish to "responsibly…

Describes Alzheimer's disease and the burdens that caregivers encounter in dealing with Alzheimer's patients. Presents information concerning support group counseling for caregivers, their particular needs, and special family issues. Emphasizes that relationships between caregivers and support group counselors are crucial to successful…

Conducted interviews with 54 home care clients (over half of whom were age 60+) and their home health aides and personal care attendants. Interviews revealed home care relationships tended to be both formal and informal, in that job responsibilities tend to be diffusely defined and home care workers often became involved in the…

Maintains that caregiver language provides significant insight into caregiving behavior in general. Responsive language, which encourages reason, logic, independence, and encouragement, is preferred over restrictive language, which is based on asserting power and control, discouraging independence, and lecturing. (MDM)

Based on qualitative study of families of children with disabilities, examined role of gender in caring for disabled child. Found caring to be complex phenomenon with at least three meanings (caring for, caring about, extended caring role). Findings suggest that responsibilities for caring are still ascribed on basis of gender. (Author/NB)

Compared aid given by adult daughters to self-sufficient elderly mothers (n=43) with that given by adult daughters to elderly mothers who were dependent for aid (n=139). Results suggest caregiving is intensification of preexisting patterns of aid-giving that is evident in female intergenerational relationships. (Author/ABL)

Employers are offering a variety of benefits to assist workers with family responsibilities, including child care and time off to look after aging parents. (Author)

Examined biases in spouses' reports of relative distribution of child care responsibility. Married couples (n=268 couples) estimated each spouse's contribution to 32 specific child care tasks and to 5 global aspects of child care responsibilities, and completed Spanier dyadic adjustment scale. Found that spouses gave themselves more credit for…

Explores developmental implications for fathers of underinvolvement in child care using Erikson's conception of adult development and his emphasis on achieving generativity. Suggests processes by which fathers may develop generativity and outlines challenges they face in achieving it. Suggests that man's involvement in child care may be crucial to…